“Looks like we got us a sow here instead of a boar”
Okay, perhaps that’s not how he would want to be remembered but Bill McKinney achieved cinema immortality as one of the great movie villains when he raped Ned Beatty in DELIVERANCE and delivered his immortal line. McKinney was a top-notch character actor who appeared in many great movies in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and was a familiar face. He was part of Clint Eastwood’s stock
A lovely cast is being lined up for sci-fi adaptation Ender's Game, with Ben Kingsleynow set to join the film...
Ben Kingsley is set for a reunion with Hugo co-star Asa Butterfield, as he enters talks to join the cast alongside the young star in upcoming sci-fi Ender's Game.
Orson Scott Card's novel is being adapted by writer/director Gavin Hood, who has looked to cast Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and now Kingsley as Mazer Rackham, a legendary war hero thought to be dead.
Harrison Ford is still wanted for the film as Colonel Hyrum Graff, but nothing has been solidified as of yet. It's looking like a great cast already, and hopefully the lovely chemistry between Butterfield and Kingsley can transfer over from Hugo.
Since
that Oscar win, the offers have been pouring in for Colin Firth,, and
it’s now official that Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake is not on his ‘accept’
list
Casting
the charm-drenched Colin Firth as a tormenting, torturing villain might
sound to some as wise as getting Hugh Grant to play an inner city gang
leader, but we’ve always thought there was a darker, vicious quality
underneath Firth’s gallant Brit persona.
We’ll have to wait for another role to find out
though, as it’s been announced the actor has turned down the role of the
villain in Spike Lee’s remake of revenge thriller, Oldboy.
Lee has Josh Brolin confirmed for the lead, that of
a man who’s imprisoned for years without knowing the reason, and who
then decides to hunt down his former captors upon release. Who exactly
will be doing the imprisoning and torturing is now a question mark, with
Firth having declined.
Firth is currently filming the not particularly enticing Arthur Newman, Golf Pro, before starring alongside Rachel Weisz in WWII PoW drama The Railway Man, then returning as Mark Darcy in the third Bridget Jones story, Bridget Jones’s Baby.
The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished - or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.
John Madden's Mossad agent thriller starring Helen Mirren fails to find its balance between past and present, despite a strong cast and an interesting premise
The Debt is a period thriller told in two chunks. We open in Tel Aviv in 1997, where the daughter of two ex-Mossad agents (Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson) is launching a book venerating the mission on which her parents met: the celebrated capture of a Nazi war criminal in 1960s Berlin.
Director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Killshot) then moves the action back to 1966 to tell the story of the agents’ pursuit and capture of “the surgeon of Birkenau” in Cold War Germany. It’s this 1966 slice where the film sparks with an engaging premise, an atmospheric period setting and a strong performance from Jessica Chastain as the young Rachel Singer.
When we return to the nineties for the
With the Red State tour stopping off in London we caught Kevin Smith's latest, and it's by far the best "41% Fresh" movie you're going to see this year
Many reviews of Kevin Smith's self-distributed indie movie Red State have fixated upon the director's public tirades against film critics, both during and since the poor critical response to Cop Out. This one won't, firstly because it smacks of sour grapes, but mostly because the film stands apart from its director, love him or hate him, in such a way that its background and publicity pales into insignificance. Red State, as billed by Smith, is a horror film. I hadn't expected a drama in which people do horrific things, but that makes it scarier to me, because it's rooted in the banality of evil. Smith's career began with a study of the mundane and tangible setting of a convenience store, in 1994's Clerks, so perhaps that should have been expected. But still, there's no denying that it comes together in such a way that you would never know it was one of his.
We begin with Jarod (Kyle Gallner), Travis (Michael Angarano) and Billy-Ray (Nicholas Braun), three mid-American teenagers who head out into the woods on the promise of a ménage à quatre with a hot older woman. They wind up in the middle of Cooper's Dell, where they meet Sara (Melissa Leo) in her trailer. She gives them beer to warm up, and they guzzle it down, little realising that it's been spiked.
The three of them wake up inside the Five Points Church, a Christian fundamentalist organisation, made up of a family of gun-nuts and led by Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks). Sara is his daughter, and the family are delivering what they believe is God's judgement upon homosexuals. Funnily enough, it's only at this point that the boys seem to twig that there might be a little too much sausage in that sex sandwich.
The cast credits at the end of the film divide the players up into sub-categories- “Sex”, “Religion” and “Politics”, three
Despite good performances and a solid concept, Contagion suffers from a muddled message and bloated cast list that the film can't properly withstand...
Since watching Contagion, I've discovered that the film is currently in release in IMAX cinemas as well as regular screens. This seems curious to me, because I can't for the life of me imagine what IMAX brings to the film. But then again, perhaps they needed screens that big to properly do justice to the sprawling ensemble, who didn't seem so well-served when I saw the film at the local multiplex.
The Oscar calibre cast includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet, with supporting performances by Bryan Cranston, John Hawkes and Elliott Gould. Technically, they're all supporting performances, seeing as how director Steven Soderbergh chooses to cover many perspectives on a global pandemic, rather than focus on one or two.
A deadly disease springs up with Beth Emhoff (Paltrow) as she returns from a business trip in Hong Kong, to her husband, Mitch (Damon). After she dies, it becomes apparent that she has passed the disease onto other people, and that it's highly contagious. Dr. Ellis Cheever (Fishburne) heads up the CDC team tasked with figuring it out and creating a vaccine.
Cheever dispatches doctors Erin Mears (Winslet) and Leonora Orantes (Cotillard) to work on the disease and figure out how to medicate it, although it appears to be figuring out mankind faster. Elsewhere, Mitch's natural immunity to the fatal virus apparently doesn't help the research
I am, unfortunately, not one of the affectionate Chuck Palahniuk readers who had apprehend the book BEFORE they saw the movie. I, however, couldn't delay to apprehend the book afterwards seeing this film. I've apprehend the book 5 times back and apparent the cine added times than I can remember.
Simply put, this cine afflicted my life. Not just on a claimed akin (on which I will not animadversion actuality except to say I'm now a above Palahniuk fan) but aswell as a movie-watcher. I appearance movies abnormally afterwards seeing this movie, because it bankrupt down doors.
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Honestly, how abounding times accept you apparent a cine that, with every viewing, gets even added complicated yet so simple that you can't advice but laugh. Every time I watch this cine I apprehension something new about it, such is the abyss of what is on the screen. Again there's the tiny affair of the adventure of Fight Club, bound by Chuck Palahniuk (who has one of the a lot of abundant imaginations around. Don't accept me? Apprehend 'Survivor' and weep!) the adventure is annihilation abbreviate of incredible, a authentic shock-value amusing annotation on the accompaniment of the apple at the end of the century. You'll cry, you'll laugh, you'll do all the clichés but a lot of chiefly you'll analyze with every individual affair on the screen.
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Cruising down the center of a two way street
Wonder ring who is really in the driver's seat
Minding my bus'ness along comes big brother
Says, Son, you better get on one side or the other.
I'm out on the border, I'm walking the line
Don't you tell me about your law and order
I'm try'ng to change this water to wine.
After a hard day, I'm safe at home
Fooling with my baby on the telephone
Out of nowhere somebody cuts in and
Says, Hmm, you in some trouble boy
We know where you're been.
I'm out on the border
I thought this was a private line
Don't you tell me 'bout your law and order
I'm try'ng to change this water to wine
Never mind your name,
Just give us your number, mm
Never mind your face,
Just show us your card, mm
And we wanna know whose wing are you under
You better step to the right or we can make it hard
I'm stuck on the border
All I wanted was some peace of mind
Don't you tell me 'bout your law and order
I'm try'ng to change this water to wine
On the border
On the border
On the border
On the border
On the border
Leave me be , I'm just walking this line
On the border
On the border
All I wanted was some peace of mind, peace of mind
I'm out on the border
On the border
Can't you see I'm tryin to change this water to wine
I'm out on the border
On the border
Don't you tell me about your law and order
I'm out on the border
Sick and tired of all your law and order
On the border
Sick and tired of it
I'm out on the border
On the border
Over...
in the cmty
Somewhere out there on that horizon
Out beyond the neon lights
I know there must be smething better
but there's nowhere else in sight
It's survival in the city
When you live from day to day
City streets don't have much pity
When you're down, that's where you'll sta{
In the city, oh, oh.
In tle city
I0was rorn here in the city
Wmth0my back against the wall
Nothing gros, cnd life ain't very pretty
No one's there to catch you whmn you fall
Somewhere out on that horizon
Faraway from the neon sky
I know there must be something better
And I can't stay another night
In the city, oh, oj.
In the city
